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  • 1 exiguitās

        exiguitās ātis, f    [exiguus], scantiness, smallness, littleness, shortness, insufficiency, scarcity: copias propter exiguitatem non facile diduci, Cs.: castrorum, Cs.: temporis, Cs.
    * * *
    smallness, paucity; shortness; scarcity

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  • 2 parvitās

        parvitās ātis, f    [parvus], smallness, littleness, slightness: cerni non posse propter parvitatem.
    * * *
    smallness, minuteness; insignificance, unimportance

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  • 3 tenuitās

        tenuitās ātis, f    [tenuis], thinness, slenderness, fineness, smallness, tenuity: tanta ut fugiat aciem: tenuitas ipsa, slimness: crurum, Ph.— Smallness, insignificance, poverty, indigence, scarcity: hominis earum rerum, quas terra procreet.—Fig., of language, simplicity, plainness: rerum et verborum.

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  • 4 brevitas

    brĕvĭtas, ātis, f. [brevis], shortness.
    I.
    Lit., in space (cf. brevis, I.) (rare):

    brevitas angusti freti,

    the narrowness of the strait, Gell. 10, 27, 6:

    hominibus Gallis prae magnitudine corporum suorum brevitas nostra contemptui est,

    smallness of stature, Caes. B. G. 2, 30; cf.:

    haec habilis brevitate suā est,

    Ov. Am. 2, 4, 35:

    spatii,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 82, 3:

    crurum,

    Plin. 8, 34, 52, § 123:

    chamaeplatani coactae brevitatis,

    Plin. 12, 2, 6, § 13:

    guttarum,

    Vitr. 7, 8, 2.—More freq.,
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    In time, shortness, brevity:

    ita diei brevitas conviviis, noctis longitudo in stupris continebatur,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 10, § 26:

    temporis,

    id. Att. 1, 10, 1:

    imperii,

    Tac. H. 1, 47:

    horae,

    Sil. 3, 141:

    vitae,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 38, 91; Sen. Brev. Vit. tit. et saep.— Absol.: confer nostram longissimam aetatem cum aeternitate;

    in eādem propemodum brevitate quā illae bestiolae reperiemur,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 39, 94.—But most freq.,
    2.
    Of discourse, brevity, conciseness: si brevitas appellanda est, cum verbum nullum redundat, brevis est L. Crassi oratio;

    sin tum est brevitas, cum tantum verborum est, quantum necesse est, etc.,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 326 sq.; id. Brut. 13, 50; 17, 66; id. Inv. 1, 20, 28 sq.; id. Verr. 2, 1, 40, § 103; id. Leg. 3, 18, 40:

    cujus tanta in dicendo brevitas fuit,

    id. Har. Resp. 19, 41:

    et a me brevitas postulatur, qui mihimet ipsi amicissima est,

    id. Quint. 10, 34:

    nos brevitatem in hoc ponimus, non ut minus, sed ne plus dicatur quam oporteat,

    Quint. 4, 2, 43:

    illa Sallustiana brevitas,

    id. 4, 2, 45; 10, 1, 32:

    brevitas quoque aut copia non genere materiae sed modo constant,

    id. 3, 8, 67; 10, 1, 46; 10, 5, 8; 6, 3, 45;

    12, 10, 48: ea, quotiens causa poscit, ubertas, ea, quotiens permittit, brevitas,

    Tac. Or. 23:

    contionem imperatoriā brevitate pronuntiat,

    id. H. 1, 18: est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia, * Hor. S. 1, 10, 9; Phaedr. 2, prol. 12; 3, 10, 60: brevitatis causā, gratiā, for the sake of brevity or conciseness, Cic. Off. 2, 12, 43; cf. Quint. 4, 2, 67:

    gratiā,

    Plin. 18, 25, 57, § 214.—
    3.
    Of shortness of syllables:

    fluit numerus tum incitatius brevitate pedum, tum proceritate tardius,

    Cic. Or. 63, 212:

    brevitas celeritas syllabarum,

    id. ib. 57, 191:

    contractio et brevitas dignitatem non habet,

    id. ib. 57, 193.—In plur.:

    omnium longitudinum et brevitatum in sonis... judicium, etc.,

    Cic. Or. 51, 173.—
    II.
    For exiguitas, parvitas (cf. brevis, II. C.), littleness, smallness:

    cujusvis in brevitate corporis,

    Lucr. 2, 483:

    vineae,

    Paul. Aug. 2:

    doni,

    Claud. Epigr. 20, 11.

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  • 5 tenuitas

    tĕnŭĭtas, ātis. f. [tenuis], thinness, slenderness, fineness, smallness, tenuity (class.).
    I.
    Lit.:

    casurusne in conspectum videatur animus, an tanta sit ejus tenuitas, ut fugiat aciem,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 50:

    valetudo modo bona sit, tenuitas ipsa delectat,

    slimness, id. Brut. 16, 64:

    crurum,

    Phaedr. 1, 12, 6: aëris, rarity (with siccitas), Sen. Q. N. 2, 10, 1:

    lini,

    Plin. 19, 1, 2, § 9:

    chartae,

    id. 13, 12, 24, § 79:

    capillamenti,

    id. 11, 37, 65, § 171:

    liniam duxit summae tenuitatis per tabulam,

    id. 35, 10, 36, § 81:

    caudae,

    id. 8, 33, 51, § 121:

    cribri,

    id. 18, 11, 27, § 105:

    aquae,

    thinness, clearness, purity, id. 31, 3, 23, § 38; cf.

    sanguinis,

    id. 11, 39, 92, § 226 et saep.—
    B.
    Transf. (acc. to tenuis, I. B.), smallness, insignificance, poverty, indigence, scarcity:

    Magii,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 265:

    alicujus,

    Cic. Fil. Fam. 16, 21, 4; Caes. B. G. 7, 17:

    aerarii,

    Cic. Off. 2, 21, 74:

    earum rerum, quas terra procreet, vel ubertatem vel tenuitatem,

    id. Div. 2, 13, 30.—
    II.
    Trop., fineness, acuteness, minuteness in language:

    limata tenuitas et rerum et verborum,

    Cic. Fin. 3, 12, 40; id. Opt. Gen. Or. 3, 9:

    (dialectica) sectas ad tenuitatem suam vires ipsā subtilitate consumet,

    Quint. 12, 2, 13; 12, 10, 35; 10, 2, 23:

    discriminum ac differentiarum tenuitates,

    fine shades, Gell. 1, 3, 29.

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  • 6 brevitās

        brevitās ātis, f    [1 brevis].—Of space, shortness: brevitas nostra, small stature, Cs.: spati, Cs. —Meton., of time, shortness, brevity: diei, i. e. the short days: temporis: vitae: in eādem brevitate quā bestiolae reperiemur.—Of discourse, brevity, conciseness: orationis: tanta in dicendo: Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia, H.: brevitatis causā. — Of pronunciation: pedum, syllabarum: brevitates in sonis.
    * * *
    shortness, smallness, narrowness; brevity, conciseness, terseness

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  • 7 minutia

    smallness, fineness; minuteness; pettiness

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  • 8 exiguitas

    exĭgŭĭtas, ātis, f. [exiguus], scantiness in measure or number, smallness, littleness, shortness, scarcity (class.).
    (α).
    With gen.:

    cum paucitatem militum ex castrorum exiguitate cognoscerent,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 30, 1:

    pellium,

    id. ib. 4, 1 fin.:

    itaque in quibus (voluptatibus) propter earum exiguitatem obscuratio consequitur,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 12, 29: copiarum, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 1; cf.

    in the follg.: congiariorum,

    Quint. 6, 3, 52:

    cibi,

    Col. 7, 5, 5:

    fisci,

    Suet. Claud. 28:

    fructuum,

    Dig. 19, 2, 15, § 5:

    temporis tanta fuit exiguitas, ut, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 21, 5; 2, 33, 2; Liv. 24, 17, 4 al.—
    (β).
    Absol.:

    ubi Crassus animadvertit, suas copias propter exiguitatem non facile diduci,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 23, 7.

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  • 9 minutia

    mĭnūtĭa, ae, f. [minutus], smallness, fineness, minuteness (post-Aug.):

    donec ad minutiam redigantur,

    to make quite small, reduce to powder, Sen. Ep. 90, 23: pulveris minutiae, little particles, Lact. Ira Dei, 10, 9.— Plur., insignificant matters, trifles:

    ut praetereamus negotiorum minutias,

    Amm. 23, 1, 1:

    humilium minutias indagare causarum,

    id. 26, 1, 1:

    historiam producere per ignobiles minutias,

    id. 27, 2, 11: per minutias, into the minutest detail; with scrutari, id. 14, 6, 25;

    with demonstrare,

    id. 23, 6, 74:

    gesta narrare,

    id. 28, 2, 12.—Postclass. collat. form mĭnūtĭes, ēi, f.:

    ad summam minutiem conterere,

    App. M. 9, p. 229:

    humana,

    id. ib. 11, p. 263; Arn. 6, p. 256; Lact. 2, 4, 12.

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  • 10 minuties

    mĭnūtĭa, ae, f. [minutus], smallness, fineness, minuteness (post-Aug.):

    donec ad minutiam redigantur,

    to make quite small, reduce to powder, Sen. Ep. 90, 23: pulveris minutiae, little particles, Lact. Ira Dei, 10, 9.— Plur., insignificant matters, trifles:

    ut praetereamus negotiorum minutias,

    Amm. 23, 1, 1:

    humilium minutias indagare causarum,

    id. 26, 1, 1:

    historiam producere per ignobiles minutias,

    id. 27, 2, 11: per minutias, into the minutest detail; with scrutari, id. 14, 6, 25;

    with demonstrare,

    id. 23, 6, 74:

    gesta narrare,

    id. 28, 2, 12.—Postclass. collat. form mĭnūtĭes, ēi, f.:

    ad summam minutiem conterere,

    App. M. 9, p. 229:

    humana,

    id. ib. 11, p. 263; Arn. 6, p. 256; Lact. 2, 4, 12.

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  • 11 parvitas

    parvĭtas, ātis, f. [parvus], smallness, littleness, slightness, insignificance (rare but class.): vincula talia quae cerni non possent propter parvitatem, * Cic. Univ. 13, 41; Plin. 2, 11, 8, § 51:

    parvitates et magnitudines rerum,

    Gell. 1, 3, 28:

    quaestionis,

    id. 7, 17, 2: mea parvitas ad favorem tuum [p. 1310] decurrit, i. e. my humble self, Val. Max. praef.

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  • 12 pusillitas

    pŭsillĭtas, ātis, f. [pusillus], littleness, smallness (post-class.), Tert. adv. Herm. 14:

    intellegentiae,

    Lact. Opif. D. 1:

    animi,

    id. ib. 6, 17, 17:

    meae pusillitatis auctoritas,

    Hier. Ep. 152.

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